Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1877 — The Iudiana Female Reformatory. [ARTICLE]

The Iudiana Female Reformatory.

The experiment of giving the care of female reformatories entirely to women has been tried at Indianapolis, Ind., for the past four years, and is proving a complete success. All the women prisoners in the State prison were transferred to the new institution, but there is no communication of any kind between these convictß and the young girls in the reformatory proper. Although many of tlie former class are known as hardened characters, the matron has no difficulty in managing them alone by the mildest of treatment, and out of ninety-five discharged from the prison in lour years but two have been sentenced for subsequent offenses. After discharge they are carefully looked after, and many of them have been furnished with good situations, which they are creditably filling, while but half a dozen inmates of either reformatory or prison have gone back to their former habits after leaving the institution. The girls in the reformatory, now numbering 135, are admitted between the ages of 10 and 15, and are discharged at 18. They are given excellent mental, training, and are also carefully instructed in household duties with most gratifying results. One of the directors of the institution is the wife of ex-Gov. Hendricks.

A Fall Eiver factory girl dreamed that she would be stricken dumb at a oertaiu hour, and since that time she has not spoken—is unable to utter a syllable, as sh» pays in writing. Doubtless she is g ipqiiQmaniac, but in every other she physically apcl men-